10 of America's Most Dangerous Roads

The United States may not have anything like Bolivia's "death road," but for highway deaths per capita, the World Health Organization ranks the U.S. as much more dangerous than most northern European countries at 11 highway deaths per 100,000 population per year—three times the death rate of the U.K. These are some of our deadliest stretches of pavement.

I-10 in Arizona

I-10 in Arizona

Although Interstate 10 runs the entire width of the U.S., the 150-mile stretch from Phoenix to the California border is particularly dangerous, with this section through lightly populated desert seeing up to 85 deaths in a single year, according to the website i10Accidents.com. The entire state death toll in Arizona is only about 700 for all roads in an average year.

I-26 in South Carolina

I-26 in South Carolina

An unusually short section of I-26 was identified as one of the deadliest roads in South Carolina by the Charleston Post and Courier. Overall, the newspaper reported in 2010 that from 2000 to 2010, federal and state records show 325 people died in 286 wrecks on I-26 in South Carolina. But the paper analyzed crash data on a few short sections of I-26 and found it suffered double the death rate of busier sections of the highway near Charleston. Seven of the nine fatalities in 2009, for example, involved cars hitting trees and rolling over in ditches, according to the Post and Courier, which also reported this section of roadway has few guardrails, yet the slopes to side road ditches are steep.